Dupuytrens Contracture And
"Heads You Win, Tails You Don't Lose"

Anything you do for your Dupuytrens contracture – even if what you do is to do nothing – is a choice and a calculated gamble. DCI's opinion is that it is smart to use the best of what is known and available while the truth about Dupuytrens contracture is still being debated. If what you do makes a difference to your hand, look what you gained. If your effort does not help your hand, you did not harm yourself and chances are the various therapies at least benefited your overall health and well-being.

This website offers a base of information to create a personal treatment plan with reasonable possibility to improve the opportunity for success, based on the synergy of using multiple therapies. This is a safe option for care since none of these treatments are inherently dangerous. With so many simple, safe and sensible things that often work, even though none of them have full scientific proof and acceptance, you have a reasonable chance to increase your tissue’s ability to heal and repair the contracted and puckered tissue on the palm of your hand. Even if these therapies do not help, there is only remote chance any of them could do harm. This is not true of medical therapies. DCI uses therapies that are refinements of substances normally and naturally found in your tissues – vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and amino acids. None of the therapies we propose are foreign or invasive in nature.

If you are successful in supporting your health sufficiently, and your tissue responds by reducing your dense and constricted tissue – you win. If you are not successful in supporting your health sufficiently or early enough to adequately make the changes or improvement in your Dupuytrens contracture as you hoped – you don't lose. There are no known side-effects to the elements of this treatment plan, and you improved your eating habits, improved your nutrition input, exercised more, probably removed some plaque from your arterial walls, probably lowered your blood pressure, probably noticed that your blood circulation was improved and your hands and feet are not cold as they were before, and probably witnessed general improvement in your overall health – so you don't lose.

If after following an aggressive and scientifically based alternative program of care your Dupuytrens contracture does not respond, as can certainly happen, then surgery can still be used. It seems logical that the DCI approach to managing this problem is a safe way to use the time that the average MD would suggest that you do nothing to help yourself.

Most conservative thought would be favorable to spending a few dollars and reasonable effort to reduce the need for an eventual surgical procedure. The person with a cold takes vitamin C to increase the function of his immune response, and expects to shorten the time he is ill. The person who has a broken bone and takes a calcium supplement, or the person who is anemic and takes some extra iron, or wants to build up some additional muscle tissue and takes some extra protein, is thought to be sensible and intelligent. The DCI tactic of aggressively using widely acceptable nutritional information and science in a Dupuytrens contracture treatment plan is not much different.

The normal and full use of your hand or hands can be taken from you through Dupuytrens contracture progression. Do all that you can, as early as you can, to allow your body the best opportunity to reverse this problem.

For ideas and suggestions to organize an effective Alternative Medicine treatment plan, click Create Dupuytrens Treatment Plan.